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The honesty crisis : preserving our most treasured virtue in an increasingly dishonest world / Christian B. Miller.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Miller, Christian B., author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Honesty.
- Genre:
- Electronic books.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource : illustrations (some color)
- Other Title:
- Preserving our most treasured virtue in an increasingly dishonest world
- Place of Publication:
- New York, NY : Oxford University Press, [2026]
- Summary:
- Honesty is our most treasured virtue. Research has found that honesty is the single most important characteristic a person can possess when it comes to liking them, respecting them, and understanding them. But honesty is eroding at a frightening rate in many areas of society today, as we are confronted with a number of honesty crises. Christian Miller's 'The Honesty Crisis' diagnoses this problem across a range of social phenomena, drawing on his years of research, and makes the case that the stakes are higher than we realize. Proposing concrete solutions, Miller's urgent and timely book will interest anyone concerned about the moral character of our world, and its future.
- Contents:
- A Real-Life Example
- Main Themes of the Book
- Intended Audience
- Notes
- Acknowledgments
- 1 Honesty Is a Lot More Interesting Than You Might Think
- Busting a Myth: Honesty and Lying
- What Is Honesty?
- The Heart Matters Too
- A Few More Pieces to the Honesty Puzzle
- Let's Get Vicious
- What's Next?
- 2 Why the News Is Not All Bad
- Are Most People Liars?
- Truth-Default Theory
- Other Factors Impacting Lying
- What about Social Media?
- Final Thoughts
- Notes.
- 3 The Honesty Crisis Surrounding Deepfakes
- Background
- Observer Fakes
- Another Observer Deepfake
- Instruction Deepfakes
- Why Deepfake Dishonesty Matters
- Disclosures to the Rescue?
- 4 Online Infidelity and the Honesty Crisis in Relationships
- Understanding Infidelity
- The Internet and Infidelity
- Chatrooms and Infidelity
- Ashley Madison and Adultery Sites
- Internet Pornography and Dishonesty
- Is There Any Hope?
- 5 AI, Academic Cheating, and the Honesty Crisis in Education
- The Psychology of Student Cheating.
- What Encouraged Student Cheating in the Good Old Days
- An Interlude on Plagiarism
- Working Against Student Cheating in the Good Old Days
- The Honesty Crisis with COVID-19
- The Current Honesty Crisis with AI
- What Can Be Done Now?
- 6 Fake News and the Honesty Crisis in Politics
- Our Political Honesty Crisis
- Going a Bit Deeper
- Fake News
- Fake News and Sharing Misinformation
- What Can Be Done?
- What About the Politicians?
- 7 Fame, Lying, and the Honesty Crisis for Celebrities
- What Is Celebrity?
- Are Celebrity and Dishonesty Related?
- An Honesty Crisis?
- The Public/Private Split in the Life of the Celebrity
- Avoiding the Public/Private Split
- What About Us?
- Confronting These Dangers
- 8 Pastors and the Honesty Crisis in Religion
- Sermon Plagiarism
- Pastors and Internet Infidelity
- Pastors and Celebrity
- Preserving Honesty
- 9 If Honesty Is Under Attack, Why Bother Trying to Protect It?
- Why Bother with Honesty in Society?
- Honesty in My Own Life
- What about White Lies?
- Is Always Being Honest Going Too Far?
- Does God Change Anything?
- Bibliography.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Description based on online resource; title from digital title page (Oxford Academic, viewed on July 7, 2026).
- Other Format:
- Print version: Miller, Christian B. Honesty crisis.
- ISBN:
- 9780197840832
- 0197840833
- 9780197840818
- 0197840817
- 9780197840825
- 0197840825
- OCLC:
- 1579013303
- Publisher Number:
- CIPO000365444
- Access Restriction:
- Restricted for use by site license
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